38. "Silent Lucidity" by Queensryche {#9; 3/91} [Video: Silent Lucidity.]
"Hush now, don't you cry."
Before this song came out, I knew that there was a group named "Queensryche," but I had not, to my knowledge, ever heard any songs by them. I basically only knew of their existence because I occasionally saw their albums while looking in the "Q" section of the record store for albums by Queen.
Then this song came out, and I immediately loved it. It's got that "flying-floating" feel that I like so much. Basically, it's like Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb," but without the super-extendo guitar solo at the end.
I bought the album. (Because, back then that was what you did if you liked a song.) I found that the album, "Empire," had two other songs on it that I liked, the title track, "Empire," which is mostly fun because of some guy spouting some incomprehensible statistics over the end of the song (I like silly spoken word songs), and "Another Rainy Night Without You," a nice power ballad.
And, other than those three songs, I've never heard nor thought of Queensryche again.
But, it's a darn good song.
COMING UP NEXT: A hungry fool in a sweater vest.
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